Books Quote by Paul O'Neill

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

“If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…”

— Suzanne McKenna Link

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who…

— Loreth Anne White

“There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.”

— John Corvino

“I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’ ‘That’s how it’s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of…

— Sadeqa Johnson

“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands”

— Rae Carson

“You’re not walking around with a golden halo beaming out of you depending on the power of your paragraph. You don’t come into it,…

— Jessie Burton

“An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

— Stephen King

“Grab 'em in the first paragraph, hold 'em until the last period and leave them wanting more!”

— Bobbi Cole Meyer

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young